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Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
Dispensing with the Shirt Bosom.

twas standing at a haberdasher's window
lately, looking at an immense display Of fine
shirts, when I was joined by a friend who i
almost . professional fop, but who neverthe'
less delivered himself as follows: "An my
life, until a year or two ago, I was a slave b
the shirt bosom. In old times, when the
fashion was to display good deal of it,
used to sit up nights studying the best ar
rangement Of the plaits and the best method
Of making the COMPOUNDED thing lie smooth.
I shall never forget the feeling Of triumph !
experienced when I first learned that by
making two or three sharp creases across the
lower end Of it, the upper end would not
fare out like a scroll Of sheet music.
"Then they began to cut the vests high;
and from sheer force of habit, I kept up all
this nonsense for about ten years longer.
~Finally, seeing that my necktie always
concealed my shirt bosom, I conceived the
sublime idea Of dispensing with shirt bosoms
altogether. I ordered a lot of short tailed
night shirts. and have never worn anything
else since. You can't imagine what a com
fort they are! They cost only SIPS apiece.
to begin with, the laundries charge only about
half price for washing them, they never wear
out, and they are the only really comfortable
shirts ever worn. I have preserved one or
two shirts with bosoms to be used on state &C.
c~asions, but l have never had the courage to
put one of them on since I made my new de-
parture. Chicago Journal
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
INTELLECTUAL LONGEVITY.

1t begins to dawn upon the minds OF
thinking Americans. says an exchange. how
it happened that the Grand Old Mar and
a few other intellectual British prodigies
are enabled to accomplish so much work at
an age when most men delight to coddle
themselves by The chimney corner. The
late Mr.. Beecher, when in London, assured
us that he found it easier to work in Eng.
land than beneath American skies. Nor
is he the first clergyman who has made q
similar remark. 1t is not long since a
New York clergyman who received q hand.
some income gave as q reason for his re-
turn to London that he could accomplish
more there than here. Admitting that fog
may be more conducive to intellectual lou
gevity than clear skies, there are wonderful
exceptions to the rule. Mr.. Beecher him.
self was a brilliant exception. There is old
Mr.. Bancroft working away like a dear old
historical fire engine at eighty something.
Behold Simon Cameron. OF Pennsylvania,
the cutest man in the State, and he must
be over ninety. We do not at all deny Mr..
Beecher's proposition. but We should like
a show OF intellectual grayheads before we
acknowledge that fog is superior to pump
kin pie az a creator Of protoplastic force.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

The MINER fails to see what relation the
new incorporation act bears to the output
Of the mines OF Butte. which is the founda.
ton OF it's business prosperity. or how it's
adoption would prevent colds and coughs
and improve the sanitary condition OF the
city. 1t also fails to see the wisdom OF tax.
ing the election of city officers from the
hands OF the people and placing it in the
hands Of q dozen or more men. When the
Inter Mountain demonstrate the wis
dom OF making these changes and of taking
in . large area Of country whose assessable
property would not yield one-tenth OF suff-
eisnt revenue to lay out and improve the
required streets and alleys, then The MINER
vi. listen to it's ~pleadings without the aid
Of . brass band.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

No protest against the Tory policy OF
coercion 10 more significant than that oil
tho lower House of the Dominion Parlia-
ment OF Canada, passed by the great ma
jority Of 1876 against At. The noble Mar
quis OF Landsdowne should take to heart
this most emphatic rebuke from a co-ordi-
nate branch Of his own Government. No
where outside Of the three kingdoms has
any voice yet been publicly raised in sup.
port OF the Salisbury d~ragonnade. And
there will not be long to wait for the full
hllment Of Gladstone's prophecy that the
voice Of England will be joined with the
voices OF Scotland and Wales in demanding
fair play and a liberal policy for Ireland
New York Star.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
THE KENTUCKY DEMOCRACY.

The Democratic State convention OF Ken.
lucky which met at Louisville a day or
two ago showed that while a party or body
Of men may not endorse the administra-
ton Of President they can consistently
add their testimony to his integrity OF pur-
pose and honesty of action. A resolution
that committed the Democratic party of
Kentucky to Mr.. Cleveland's administra-
ton without reservation was properly re-
ierred to . committee which reported /
platform upon which every member OF the
party in that State can stand. Without
committing itself to the silver or civil SER
vice policy of the administration the plat
form acknowledged the integrity OF Presi-
dent Cleveland and his conscientious devo-
ton to duty, and that he has given the
country an economical and clean adminis-
tration.
Greater significance is attached to the
wording OF the platform from the fact that
it is the joint work OF Henry Watterson, of
the Louisville Courier Journal, and Speaker
Carlisle. Watterson has been repeatedly
charged by Republican prints with having
formed an alliance with Mclean, of the
Cincinnati Inquirer, and another prominent
Democratic editor for the avowed purpose
Of defeating the denomination of President
Cleveland, and il he be nominated to elect
Blaine over him. If there be any truth in
the charge MI. Watterson has not permit
ted any evidence OF it to crop out in the
platform. That instrument is not only
Democratic to the core, but sounds the
Presidents praises in no uncertain voice.
In this respect it is significant and sets at
rest the question Of Mr.. Watterson's atti-
.tude toward Mr.. Cleveland In the event the
latter shall b rsnominated.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
The Manufacture of Hairp,r..

For years the English and French con-
tTolled the manufacture of hairpins and it
is only within the last twenty years that the
goods have been produced in this country to
any extent. The machinery used is of a deli
cate and intricate character, as the prices at
which pins are sold necessitates the most
rapid and cheapest process, which can only
be procured by automatic machines. The
wire is made expressly for the purpose and
put up in large coils, which are placed in a
clamp, which carries it to the machine while
Strengthening it; from there it runs in another
machine, which cuts, bends and, by a deli
cate and instantaneous process, sharpens the
points. Running at full speed, these ma
chimes will turn out 100 hairpins every min
ute. To economic, it is necessary to keep
them working night and day. The difficult
part OF the work is the enameling, which il
lone by dipping in a preparation and baking
in an oven Here is where the most constant
and careful attention is required, as the pin
must be perfectly smooth and the enamel
have a perfect polish. The slightest particles
OF dust cause imperfectness and roughness.
which Is objectionable.-Brooklyn Citizen
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

The dsbass in ths House Of Commons
yesterday developed the faet that the
Government VA inclined to stand By the
London Times in tho latter's attack upon
Dillon. Under the previous rulings and
practices OF that body whom tho integrity
Of member vas attacked BY . newspaper
. committee Of inquiry wa appointed to
ascertain all the iaets in connection with
the case. Ifit ware found that the new
paper had ibeled the member tho editor
was cited to appear before the bar Of the
House and compelled to make Q defense
there. This course was pursued in difference
to the assumption that an attack upon .
member was an attack upon the House
itself and that the House was in duty
bound to protect the honor of it's men,
bers when it was assailed.
In Dillon's case, however, it seems . diff
ferent line Of action 10 marked ont. Mr..
Dillon is informed the Government will
the House, but in the courts, and he il in
vited to select his own counsel and 60
ahead. The Irish and several Liberal MEM
bers demur to this course ofprocedure, and
in the debate employed some emphatic
language to express their dissent from it.
In this departure from the general practice
in such cases the Government shows it's
hand so plainly that the most pro-
nounced dullard can see it. In SO many
words the ministry tells Mr.. Dillon and all
other Parnellite members they cannot look
to the Government for protection; that
they are regarded rs it's enemies and must
take care of themselves when attacked by
Tory newspapers.
The Tory leaders will make no friends
among the English people by their course
in this matter. The proverbial love of an
for fair play will assert itself
in utterances not at all fattering to the
and intensity the sympathy
or the Irish people loudly expressed in the
recent monster meetings held throughout
What course Mr.. Dillon will now
pursue is not made clear by our dispatches.
t may, however, be accepted asa fact that
'either he nor his friends will commit
themselves to any act hat will bring dis
redit to themselves or to the cause they
epresent.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

The debt of Virginia, to attempt to COM
promise which Sir Edward Thornton is
now in this country, as the representative
OF the English creditors, leaves something
to be said in behalf of the State. The
bonds amounting to $5O, OoO, 900, draw
ing six per cent interest, were issued in
1861, shortly before the war. Fol the sue
ceeding iour years the ordinary industries
were checked and at the surrender of Gen.
Lee the State was in an impoverished on
dition. During the war the interest lapsed.
Afterwards IN agreement was made by
which the interest was reduced to three per
cent, and the coupons were to be receiv-
able for taxes. The dark spot for the Old
Dominion consists in a departure from
this agreement, since which the bonds
have had no marketable value. The won.
derful prosperity of recent years will
doubtless result in a vindication OF the
State credit.-Denver News.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
The Growth of Chjca~o.

This growing, by the way, makes some
curious and expensive letting down of tucks
and piecing and destroying. Thus, some one
referred in my bearing to talk about selling
Honore block, and remarked that the pron.
erty was rather hard to dispose of because
"the building was lot modern. and vet it was
too good to tear down." Now this rather mada
me stare. Honore block. a six story affair
cornering next to the postoffce, was u up
after the great fire, being finished about a
dozen years ago, W tn a stone front, fine ele-
vator and all things BETTING, so that I had
known it as the cr..ck business building of the
city. But now it is a dozen years old, and
not modern" The present way is to run mn
eight or ten stories, have the interior given
more Light and air than was known until re-
Gently, and then put in two or three elevators
which seem to be mcdeled upon the machines
sometimes seen in excuses and called acata-
pults" They must be worse for the nerves
than the catapults, Enough, for the circus men
were only fired up into the air, while these
things let the victim down at some rate faster
than be would naturally fall, and then stop
him with a dull thud which sets every bona
in his body to quaking.-Cor. Detroit Free
Pres
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

Although many heartrending catastro.
phies have occurred throughout the coun.
try during the past twelve months, not
one has been received by the public with
such IN overpowering sense OF horror as
that recorded in The MINERS dispatches
yesterday morning as occurring in a coal
mine in British Columbia. Should the ex.
plosion he traced to the carelesness Of any
party o. parties 10 punishment can be too
severe for him or them. A fearful respon.
sibility rests somewhere.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
St. David,s Society.

Last evening the members of st. David'f
Society met in Carlice Hall, it being thu
occasion of the annual election OF perma'
nent officers of the Society. At an early
hour the members, accompanied by their
wives and children and invited guests. he
gan to arrive. Mr.. Jerry Griffths called
the meeting t O order, when the following
named officers we're elected:
President-John G.. Evans.
First Vice PresideBt-Thomas Richards.
Second Vice PresidentcJames G. Ev ms.
Treasurer-E. NJ. Bowen.
Recording Secretary-David Lawrence.
Financial Secretary-J. W. Morris.
Musical Director-John II. Richards.
A pleasant feature of the entertainment
was the presence of Mesdames E. NJ. Bow
en-, J.. E. Lloyd. Powell and b. NJ. Hughes
in the costume of a quarter of a century
ago in Wales. After the meeting adjourned
old and beautiful chorus was rendered
by the Glee Club, LET the Hills Resound."
after which dancing was in order. At IL
O'Clock, supper was served by the lady
members OF the society to which ample
was done. The social event will be
long remembered by all present.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

The London Peace society has issued a
long address to the people of the United
States, advising them to compose their
minds on the fisheries question and not in.
dulse in irritating and Incorporate lam
suage. as such a course may bring on a war.
The London Peace society has evidently
been misinformed upon this subject. The
fellows who have been doing the warlike
talk are the Canadians. They have also
fitted out'a navy, and have fred on unof-
tending American vessels. We expect in
this country to settle this business in a
peaceful way with the British Government,
Ind We don't care about being lectured by
the London Peace society.-Pioneer Press.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
ELECTION IN BRITISH HONDURAS
A Day Of Much ReJoIcins-A Big Feast,
NTusfn and Dancing.

A Day Of Much ReJoIcfnE-A Big Feast,
Music and Dancing.
Election day is celebrated with much 10
joicing, just as it used to be before Europeans
came u America The Spanish %chroniclers
tell S that it was then customary for thoss
going out Of Office to give q banquet to their
successors, and at the present time the au-
thorities of those villages always spread .
banquet election day. The entire repast Il
placed on the table at once, except tho tor.
tillas. Fresh supplies of these are brought
steaming hot to the table every few minutes
Only men take part in this feast of the poll
ticians and boys wait on them. In The even
ing the hall is cleared for dancing; then the
women and girls appear. They are dressed
with colored embroidery and have bright
colored scarfs around their shoulders Bulk
has several very full skirts, all sti6ly starched.
Their gold ornaments, earrings, necklaces
and finger rings are very numerous-made
from ore found in their native soil. Some Of
the girls are beautiful, though all are short
in stature like the men.
The musical instrument most used by these
people is the marimba, played after the man.
ner OF q dulcimer, but made of wood and
pieces Of hide. The tones Of the marimba
are plaintive, sweet and melodious. It can
be heard at a long distance in the still night
air.
The women sit around the room, but the
men stand in groups. When the dancing b
to commence one Of them only advances to
the middle of the floor and mods to the woman
he desires for a partner. She leaves her seat
and goes to face him, standing a few feet of.
They perform a jig, hardly moving their bod.
les. though the steps are varied and rapid;
occasionally they exchange places, but never
clasp hands. Without even looking at her
partner, the woman returns to her seat when
the fancy takes her, and he, without chang.
ing his position, invites SOM one else by q
nod, for he is expected to remain on foot till
the music ceases. Then another takes his
place; so dancing is kept up till midnight,
all conducting themselves with the greatest
decorum. but merry peals of laughter are
heard now and again. and every one seems
perfectly happy, chatting gayly as they wend
their way homeward in the soft moonlight
Cor. Home Journal
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
MONTANA MATTERS.

Indian depredations on the Marias have
ceased for the present.
The artes an well at Miles City throws a
two and a half inch stream fifteen feet.
The running time OF the stages between
Miles City and Spearfsh is now forty-seven
hours.
N. j. Bielenberg estimates Montana's
cattle loss the past winter at twenty-five
\ per cent.
The Capital Guards, Montana militia,
have adopted the regulation United States
cavalry uniform.
The stage Of water at Fort Benton is re-
ported excellent. Boats reach the head OF
navigation without trouble.
H. A. Fry, Of Fort Benton, held two-ffths
OF the ticket hat drew the capital prize at
the last drawing OF the Louisiana Lottery.
Nearly all the stockmen OF the Shonkin
range were in Miles City Saturday to attend
the regular annual meeting Of the associa-
ton.
The project of connecting Sun River and
Choteau by telephone is being talked up
and probably will be carried into execu-
ton.
The Miles City base ball team is in the
field and ready for the Keogh boys to do
them up in the same handsome style as
lasi season.
Albert F. Smith was acquitted on Satur.
day Of the charge OF murder of his brother,
Frank Smith, in Emma Rich,nond's bagnio
at Miles City or December 90.
On the 2Sth ult. the Thermometers in the
Signal Service Office at Fort Assinaboine
registered II degrees above, the highest ever
recorded at that station in April.
Prospectors at CIV. Hoffmau's mines at
Timberline have struck a large vein of coal
some distance from the incline, from which
ne has taken a large amount of coal.
William James wal arrested by soldiers
at Norris Basin, in Yellowstone National
Park, where he was found with skins in bis
possession, presumably trapped there con-
trary to the regulations.
The in~corporators of the Bozeman and
Butte Short Line, are very cautious in
their expressions regarding the road, but
promise to give the press the full particu-
lars as soon as practicable.
The sunshine and wind of last week
stopped the flow of silt on the East side of
the unn near BOzeman and before rainy
weather comes again a stone wall will
stand between the bank and a blockade.
1t is believed that gas can be tapped at
Bozeman for the reason that all around
the town lies vast upheaval of coal. The
coal ID supposed to lie in a great body un-
derneath Bozeman, and consequently natu-
raj gas could be tapped at most any place
~thereabouts.
The Northern Pacific and the Oregon
Navigation Company have issued a tariff
on w%est-bound live stock between St, Paul
Duluth, ETC., and points west of Mandan,
greatly reducing the rates heretofore in ex.
istence. The rate to Helena is reduced from
$3.50 to $215 per car load.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

The Kentucky Democrats voice the sen.
timent Of the Democracy OF the country in
their platform when they declare that
they sympathize with the people OF Ire
land in their struggle for local government
and that they unite with the friends OF
liberal progress in all parts OF the world in
~denouncing the coercion measures now
pending in the British parliament as a
monstrous crime against a brave, generous
and ~longsui1ering people: an obstruction
to human freedom, abhorrent to the spirit
Of liberty in every land"
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

The criticisms made upon Public Printer
Bsnedic. have resulted in the public benefit
BY causing . statement OF the reformation
he has effected in his office, including the
reduction Of his force from over 2,4OO to
5000, and an increase in the number OF
skilled laborers.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

Texas authorities have established quar-.
antine to prevent cholera coming from
Mexico. and the Mexican authorities have
done the same thing against the Isthmus to
keep it out Of their country. The evil oil
this excess Of vigilance is that by the time
the cholera gets neal enough to be danger.
ous the people will be so Disguised with the
quarantine that they will prefer to take
chances with the cholera.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
Special to The MINER
A Distressing Accident,

HELENA, NJ. T., May 5.-At Tostol
just after moor three employees. at the
smelter were putting a new charge OF iron
in the furnace. they run an iron bar to
start the run OF metal. The bar was we.
and popped out instantly. The men were
all STOPPING looking in and received the
charge of molten metal in their faces. DR..
Belcher of Townsend was summoned. He
arrived two hours afterwards. He had to
put the men under the influence of chic.
reform to take the metal out oftheir faces
and eyes. 1t is thought all three will lose
their right eyes. One man had a piece re-
moved from one eye as large as a hall
ounce bullet. The injured persons are A.
J. Aldrich, foreman; H. E. Williams and H.
j. Tabor.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
The Police Court.

Chas. Gaech was brought before Judge
Mediation yesterday morning charged with
cutting and woundlng James jenkins in
the Globe saloon on West Broadway Mon
day night. County Attorney Dewitt ap-
Hatton had gone out in the morning to
Centerville and taken the testimony of the
wounded man at his home. He found he
was only slightly cut on the left side. The
evidence produced in the court showed that
Jenkins and some others present were a.
g~ressors and that, in TACT, Gaech had only
acted in self-defence, The County Attorney
did not regard the evidence produced SUI
fcient to hold the accused for the Grand
Jury and as 8. consequence Gaech was dis
charged.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
The E1ar.

Yale freshmen, anxious to have their class
flag displayed on the stage OF the New Haven
Opera house and thus excite the sophomores,
tried to hire the manager Of the performance
TO display it by buying 200 front seats. He
refused. Then one of them engaged as a
1supe," and when in the course Of the per
Torrance a boat crossed the stage he man
aged to fasten the flag to the boat, and it was
visible for some ten minutes, while pande.
monium ruled in the auditorium as the fresh
men cheered and the sophomcres hissed.-.
New York Sun.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

And now it appears that the United
States has q real, live volcano within it's
borders. 1t is a safe wager to make that
some enterprising Yankee will haveit taken
mp and ground laid out for a hotel upon it
within . week. That burning, belching vol
eano will be the making of Arizona.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

Powderly lie in favor Of placing further re-
strictions upon foreign immigration. in or
der 10 check the influx of Socialists and
Anarchists. In this he is not far out OF the
way, but it would be difficult to frame a
law which would not be arbitrarily oppres-
sivs and which would at the same time &C.
eomplish the end desired.
Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07

Gladstone il right. 1t is now evident the
Parliamentary majority intends to pur.
sue = policy Of evaporation and oppres.
sion to the bitter end, and that relief to
Ireland will finally come through the re-
action that will surely follow the Tory's
remorseless tyranny.